Flight Line Internet Radio Continues to Grow

Internet radio makes big impression on the aviation industry as Flight Line Internet Radio surpasses 1,000,000 and continues to grow.
Flight Line internet Radio (FLiR), launched in October of 2008 is pleased to announce that they have exceeded 1,000,000 visitors to their website last month. 

Flight Line Internet Radio is a radio station that caters to aviation enthusiasts. FLiR is a 24/7 internet based radio station that has a global reach, with various topical segments that will entertain almost anyone that enjoys flight.  The radio station follows a general format of a traditional local radio station, mixing topical segments with music and normal radio commercials.  The concept is to attract listeners because of their hobby or passion instead of their geographical location.

Flight Line Radio is a partnership of Jamie Till and Don Costanza.  Both Don and Jamie are Fort Wayne Indiana natives with diverse backgrounds and a passion for all things aviation related. They have been providing a unique radio service to many major venues such as “Airventure” and “The Indianapolis Air Show” as well as many other non-aviation events for over four years.

“We set out to build something that would compliment our core program as well as be interesting to aviation enthusiasts, something that could be the “background music” in their office, shop, or FBO.” states Jamie Till.  The station carries news and commentary from several prominent aviation podcasters, several specialty shows as well as articles from “GA News.”  “The Indy Transponder” is a daily contributor, providing top of the hour overviews of aviation entertainment news.

“We continually strive to forge new relationships with exciting content providers as well as furthering our long-standing relationships with those we currently work with. Our organization has been extremely thrilled by the response within the aviation community.  We are honored by the support given to us by the listeners and our contributors and we knew that this would be popular, but we had no idea that it would grow this big, this fast. The station has listeners from all over the world. It is pretty amazing. What is equally amazing is that it doesn’t show signs of slowing done.”  said Don.

Flight Line internet Radio surpassed 100,000 visitors in less than 4 months of operation and 200,000 two months later.  “We have reached a point now that we are comfortable with our capabilities and with the interest level from the aviation community.  We have attracted an audience that seems to be hungry for our product as well as a conduit to promote some very unique content from some very talented individuals and we think that advertisers will recognize the value of our service as well.” states Don.

For more information about Flight Line internet Radio contact:

info@flightlineradio.com
Phone 260-748-8156

www.flightlineinternetradio.com

www.flightlineradio.com

Flight Line Internet Radio takes off

Flight Line Radio launched its new Internet-based radio station Sept. 27.

Flight Line Internet Radio will feature original programming on "all things aviation," from warbirds to homebuilts - and everything in between - as well as music.

The new radio station is the brainchild of Don Costanza and Jamie Till, the men behind Flight Line Radio, which provides programming at air shows and other venues.

That programming is received on credit-card-sized radios that have several channels, including one that allows air show attendees to hear the announcers during the airs shows, as well as tower transmissions. Another channel plays programming provided by the venue, such as Sun 'n Fun Radio at the annual Sun 'n Fun Fly-In in Lakeland, Fla. A third channel will play Flight Line Internet Radio.

The radios made their air show debut at AirVenture 2006 and have proven quite popular. Besides air shows, the radios are used at all kinds of sporting events, including golf tournaments, car races and more.

The Internet radio station was a natural outgrowth of the air show broadcasts, according to Costanza, who envisions aviation enthusiasts playing the radio station at their hangars and in their offices, with the music in the background, then the original programming catching the listeners' attention. There is no charge to listen to the radio station.

Original programs, which will range in length from four minutes to 13 minutes, will cover the gamut of aviation, such as a feature that's ready to go on the Civil Air Patrol. Another program will spotlight international travel, with tips on what pilots need to know for smooth flying. One of the international contributors is Laszlo Toth, who is involved in air shows throughout the Middle East and Europe and who also flew for the Soviet Air Force. Another program is hosted by Dr. Dave Holmes, owner of Warbird Brewing Co. His weekly show will be on - what else? - warbirds and brewing. An F-16 flight surgeon during the Gulf War, Holmes also is a board certified psychiatrist.

General Aviation News also will provide content on the Internet radio station, sharing many of our feature stories with listeners.

Costanza and Till hope listeners will give them feedback on what they want to hear. "This will have an organic growth to it," Till said. "A lot of people have a lot of good ideas and we encourage that type of input."

While designed to entertain, the radio station has another purpose: To grow aviation, according to Till.

"The problem is that GA is shrinking," he said. "We have to attract people in, and educate them. Then, once we get them interested, we have to keep feeding them interesting information to keep them engaged."

Another possible mission for the station? Creating a place where all GA can come together.

"Aviation is a very fragmented society - it's like a dysfunctional family," Costanza said with a laugh. "We're hoping we can become an aggregate for all things aviation."

Initial programming will fall into 12 broad categories: Historical, military, homebuilt, warbird, light sport, regulatory, travel, philanthropic, training, air show and racing, commentary and alternative flight, which covers everything from balloons to jet packs and space flight.

WHAT ABOUT THE TUNES?

While the original programming is a top priority, a radio station has to have music. The founders choose music designed to appeal to the station's general demographic - men and women between the ages of 25 and 65, according to Till.

As the station becomes successful, the pair hope to offer different genres of music, so that listeners can go to the website, then click on the type of music they prefer - rock, jazz, country - and be able to hear that. All channels will offer the same programming in between the music, Till explained.